Relating to or characteristic of gongorism; written in an ornate, complex style with elaborate metaphors and difficult language.
From gongorist plus the suffix -ic, creating an adjective form. This term describes the stylistic characteristics of writing influenced by Luis de Góngora's baroque aesthetic.
A gongoristic poem is basically a puzzle wrapped in beautiful language—readers need both an excellent vocabulary and detective skills to decode what the poet actually means!
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